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Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Unveiled: Discovering the Truth Behind Islamic Extremism with Yasmine Mohammed

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8684 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Yasmine was raised in an extreme Islamic household and was married to a man who turned out to be an Al-Qaeda terrorist. She is a tireless human rights campaigner advocating for the rights of women living within Muslim-majority countries as well as those who struggled under religious fundamentalism in general. She is the founder of Free Hearts Free Minds, an organization providing mental health support for members of the LGBTQ+ community and free thinkers living within Muslim-majority countries where both “crimes” can be punished by execution. I wish to support women’s equal rights everywhere, and please join me for a very important interview on her book and her work. Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.

0:09.0

And today I have a special guest with me, Yasmine Mohammed, whose book unveiled,

0:17.0

I just finished last week, in fact, and it was so moving, and I reached out to you,

0:22.6

Yasmin, and said, wow.

0:25.6

And you said, would you come on my thing?

0:28.6

And I did that.

0:30.6

So we did a video where you were kind of interviewing me, and now I get to interview you.

0:36.6

But let me give my listeners a little bit more on

0:39.8

your background. Let's start with your book unveiled. It's a powerful memoir and polemic,

0:48.1

but I don't think it's that polemical. It recalls your experiences being raised in a fundamentalist Islamic household, and you were arranged

0:57.4

to a marriage, a man that you didn't choose, who turned out to be an al-Qaeda operative,

1:04.1

and just the incredible amount of religious trauma and abuse that women suffer from and I was mentioning to you

1:15.5

previously that I work with extremist Jewish cults Christian cults and now I'm getting

1:22.4

more of an education on what Islam is doing in its more extreme forms.

1:29.3

And of course, what's different is that their state-run Sharia law countries.

1:36.3

That's different.

1:37.3

I mean, the Christian right wants to make the U.S. that way and impose their version of reality,

1:43.3

which is anti-women's rights, anti-gay rights,

1:47.6

anti-indigenous rights, anti-Semitic rights, et cetera, et cetera. So you've gone on to start

1:56.1

a nonprofit. Is it a nonprofit? Free Hearts, Freemines.org. And it offers mental health support for members of the

2:06.1

LGBTQ community, free thinkers living within Muslim majority countries. And a lot of my listeners

2:14.3

don't realize people can be threatened to be killed if they speak out against

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